Design and Analysis of Digitally Modulated Transmitters for Efficiency Enhancement by Lu Ye Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Professor Ali M. Niknejad, Chair The last decade has witnessed a tremendous growth in wireless communications. Consumer demands for battery-operated mobile devices with versatile, high data-...

It was hypothesized that a lack of acetogenic biomass (biocatalyst) at the cathode of a microbial electrosynthesis system, due to electron and nutrient limitations, has prevented further improvement in acetate productivity and efficiency. In order to increase the biomass at the cathode and thereby performance, a bioelectrochemical system with this acetogenic community was operated under galvano...

The power amplifiers are typically the most power-consuming block in wireless communication systems. Spectrum is expensive, and newer technologies demand transmission of maximum amount of data with minimum spectrum usage. This requires sophisticated modulation techniques, leading to wide, dynamic signals that require linear amplification. Although linear amplification is achievable, it always c...

Spectrum sharing has been the subject of a 3 year research programme organised by the UK’s Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications. Cognitive radio was identified as a key enabling technology to allow spectrum to be shared efficiently between terminals and networks. The project has harnessed the skills of 4 UK Universities working together to understand the potential ...

Checking of a program conformity with a contract specification is a hard problem. Usually this check requires high time and memory expenses. This work describes a technique that allows to lower verification costs through usage of some information known by people who verify a program and contains suggestions of the way how to organize it.

Transferring from laboratory frame to off-resonance rotating frame for the (1)H spin can compensate the relaxivity loss for paramagnetic agents at the magnetic field strength higher than 3 Tesla and enhance water relaxation rate constant significantly. A comprehensive theory for calculating the relaxation rate constants in the off-resonance rotating frame is described. This theory considers the...

BACKGROUND The most commonly used molecular cytogenetic technique is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). It has been widely applied in many areas of diagnosis and research, including pre-natal and post-natal screening of chromosomal aberrations, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, cancer cytogenetics, gene mapping, molecular pathology and developmental molecular biology. The analysis of ...

We report on conjugated polymer nanoparticles of polyfluorene that were formed to exhibit higher fluorescence quantum efficiency in film (68%) and reduce undesired emission peak wavelength shifts in film (by 20 nm), compared to the solid-state polymer thin film made directly out of the same polymer solution without forming nanoparticles. Using the facile reprecipitation method, solutions of pol...

The visual system can be highly influenced by changes to visual presentation. Thus, numerous techniques have been developed to augment imagery in an attempt to improve human perception. The current paper examines the potential impact of one such enhancement, multispectral image fusion, where imagery captured in varying spectral bands (e.g., visible, thermal, night vision) is algorithmically com...

Extracting energy from ambient vibration to power wireless sensor nodes has been an attractive area of research, particularly in the automotive monitoring field. This article reports the design, analysis and testing of a vibration energy harvesting device based on a miniature asymmetric air-spaced cantilever. The developed design offers high power density, and delivers electric power that is su...